Garden Design Diploma Course - award winning training

A master class every day

Our one year Garden Design Diploma programme is the first garden design course aimed at providing a master class every day for its students. The Diploma is led by Andrew Wilson, widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading garden design lecturers, who has been at the forefront of garden design teaching in the UK and overseas, for some 20 years.

Rewarding careers

Our 2010 Garden Design Diploma graduates are already on their way to rewarding careers. This year they won 4 out of the 5 awards made in the Society of Garden Designers 2010 Graphic Illustration Awards, an outstanding achievement and recognition of the level of training given at the College.
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With our unique placement scheme we are often able to place students on work experience with some of the country’s leading garden designers. The majority of our students benefited from work experience this year and some have been rewarded with positions with designers including Andy Sturgeon, Luciano Giubbilei, Tom Stuart Smith and Sam Martin.

A fresh approach

We’ve taken a new, fresh approach by arming students with professional skills not always offered at other more traditional colleges. As well as core design and plant skills we provide intensive business and construction teaching so that students can launch successful businesses as soon as they graduate.

• Two days contact time per week plus personal study time over a period of 34 weeks, divided into three academic terms.
• Through lectures, studio work and practical on-site training students are taken through foundation skills to professional design communication skills.
• As well as design and plant skills, students will be equipped with business and construction skills to support their business aspirations.
• All teaching staff will also be practitioners in their particular field enabling students to learn from their experience as well as their teaching.
• Students benefit from exclusive guest tutor days from some of the world’s leading designers such as Tony Heywood and Luciano Giubbilei and designers who have more recently started out on their careers such as Kate Gould and Jo Thompson so you get a rounded picture of what to expect in the first few years of your course.
• Many of our students have benefited from work experience through our close connections with leading garden designers and gone on to full time positions.
• Unique access to design collections and specialist visits.
• A graduate support service that includes access to job opportunities and projects, special events and on going tutor and course support.

Enrolment

The Garden Diploma Course starts in September of each academic year. We still have places for the 2010-2011 course so please contact us if you are interested in enrolling in September or coming to an Open Day for the course starting in September 2011.

In keeping with the international student body of Regent’s College we welcome students on our landscape design diploma and courses from both the UK and overseas. If you are applying from overseas you will need to be eligible to study in the UK.

At the London College of Garden Design we offer the best professional garden design course on the market where students can learn from the very best in the profession every day. We look forward to hearing from you.